Publisher's Summary

The most comprehensive Python programming beginners guide! So you want to learn Python? There are a lot of reasons that you may want to. Python can be used for everything from video games to server side web applications to fully fledged desktop applications. It's a great first language to learn because it has a write once, run anywhere philosophy behind it, and it's really simple for people to parse. There are a lot of different places where you could learn Python. Let me make my case really quickly for why this will most definitely by the one that you want to go with. Other books will hold your hand with Python programming. They'll be so busy telling you exactly what to do and what buttons to press and what code to type that they don't let you actually learn what the buttons you're pressing and the code you're typing are doing. Not me. Nuh-uh. My goal is to teach you to program, not just program in Python. You're going to understand the reason behind everything that you're doing, so that you can reproduce it as you need to, and not just in pretty little code snippets that are borrowed straight out of this or that programming book. There are a great many places where you could learn Python. But I guarantee you that if you take the initiative and time to work through this book, you'll get a better education from this book and from me than you would from anywhere else. Python Programming is the absolute best book for everything that you're wanting to accomplish in the sphere of Python. We're going to cover a great many beginner topics, such as the nature of variables and values, the many uses of methods, as well as the logic behind control loops. You're going to learn a lot from this book. I guarantee you that much.